oradores CONVIDADOS

Vítor Martins Primo

Os Simulacros no Contexto das Medidas de Autoproteção Contra Incêndio

Vítor Primo is currently Commander of the Professional Fire Battalion and Civil Protection of Vila Nova de Gaia. He holds a Degree in Civil Engineering from the Military Academy and a Master in Urban Fire Safety by the University of Coimbra. He is also Assistant Professor in ISCIA – Institute of Information and Management Sciences. He was former Technical Assistant and Commander of the Professional Fire Battalion of Porto and Staff of the District Command of Porto at the Civil Protection National Authority.

Ignacio Castellucci

Fatigue and sleepiness in the mining industry

Ignacio Castellucci is an associate professor at the School of Medicine for the Universidad de Valparaíso (UV, Chile) and Ergonomic consultants in Ergocare, Chile. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Physiotherapy from the Universidad de Playa Ancha, Chile in 2006. He also has a post-graduate diploma in Ergonomics and Work Health from Universidad Mayor in Santiago de Chile. During 2009, he received his Master’s Degree in Human Engineering from the University of Minho with the support of The Alban European Program. In addition, in 2015 He got a PhD from the University of Minho with the collaboration of the Delft University of Technology. He has been Project Management and Ergonomic Consultant for more than 20 ergonomics projects in both public and private sector (ABB, CODELCO, LAN, COPEC, MUTUAL, RENAULT). At the University, He has been a member/principal investigator for more than 10 international and national externally funded research projects in the domains of Ergonomics and Human Factors. He is Member of the Chilean Ergonomic Society and Certified Ergonomist N°06. He also has been collaborating with several international peer-reviewed scientific journals in the domain of Ergonomics as a reviewer.

Harry Shannon

Health and Safety Issues in an Aging Workforce

Harry Shannon trained in the UK, doing his undergraduate studies in Mathematics at Oxford University. His graduate work was in Statistics at Birmingham (MSc) and in Applied Statistics at the University of London (PhD). His PhD thesis was a study of work accidents at the Ford Motor Company’s transmission plant in Halewood, near Liverpool.
He was a statistician at the Institute of Occupational Health in London for 5 years, before moving to the faculty of McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. He joined the Program in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and was Director from 1999-2005. He conducted numerous occupational epidemiology studies, including ones of workers in nickel mining and processing, and in glass fibre manufacturing. He also led projects to learn about organizational factors related to work safety, and has continued to do research on this topic.
From 2009-2015, he chaired the Methodology Working Group for the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, which has now recruited over 51,000 people to be followed for at least 20 years. He is especially interested in how to manage health and safety in the aging workforce, and the issues facing society from population aging.
He was on the editorial board of Safety Science from 1997–2015, and has been on the editorial board of Occupational and Environmental Medicine since 2004. He was the President of the Canadian Association for Research on Work & Health (CARWH) in 2003-2004.

Alejandro Romero Mirón

De la protección a la promoción de la salud

Alejandro has a a degree in Organisations and Work Psychology from the Universidad de Barcelona. He is a senior practitioner of Occupational Risk Prevention. He is also a member of the Observatory for the of Occupational and Environmental Risk Prevention from the Foundation for motivation of Human Resources. He is the Director of the Prevention Services at the Insurance company MC Mutual..

Rui Bettencourt Melo

Paradigm shift in occupational risk management

Rui Bettencourt Melo is an Assistant Professor of the Ergonomics Section of the University of Lisbon and effective researcher of the Architecture, Urbanism and Design Research Center. He has a graduation degree in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon, a MSc degree in Human Engineering from the University of Minho and a PhD in Ergonomics from the Technical University of Lisbon. He has been working at the Ergonomics Section since 1995 where he is responsible for the Occupational Safety & Health area and a member of the Direction Board of the Ergonomics MSc program. He engaged in research concerning risk assessments particularly related to environmental risk factors and regularly publishes on these topics in scientific journals. He also has been collaborating with several international peer-reviewed scientific journals in the domain of Ergonomics and Occupational Safety as a reviewer. A few years ago he joined the national Subcommittee for Standardization on Ergonomics -Occupational Safety and Health (SC3/CT42) and the Certification Committee of Occupational Safety and Health Managers and Technicians at the European Network of Safety and Health Professional Organisations (ENSHPO). He is also Secretary of the Portuguese Society for Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SPOHO) since its foundation in 2004.

Martina Kelly

Innovating for Safety

Martina Kelly lectures in the College of Engineering & Informatics at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway). She holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering and an MSc in Occupational Health & Ergonomics. With specialist knowledge in the areas of safety engineering, risk management, and human factors/ergonomics, Martina’s main focus is on the application of scientific and engineering principles to protect people at work. She also undertakes research in the systems engineering space, particularly in relation to the integration of quality, environmental and health & safety management systems in the medical device industry; and on the regulatory challenges facing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
Martina contributes to teaching and research programmes across both engineering and science at NUI Galway and holds a postgraduate diploma in Academic Practice. She has recently conducted research in the area of ‘Serous Play’ and is currently investigating ideas around using ‘play’ to foster innovation.
Prior to working in academia, Martina spent 10 years in the electronics industry where she worked in training, in quality, and as a technical specialist in the design engineering laboratory.

Paul Swuste

Seveso directives in the Netherlands and Belgium: their effect and efficiency

Paul is an associate professor of the Safety Science Group of the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He finished his PhD. thesis ‘Occupational Hazards and Solutions’ in 1996. From 1980 onwards he has worked at the Safety Science Group and has been engaged in research concerning risk assessments of various occupational and process related hazards, and quality assessments of risk management systems of various industries. Examples are the international steel industry, the international rubber industry, the national transport sector, the international asbestos industry, and the international process industry. He publishes with coauthors very frequently on these topics, both in the scientific, international and national press, and in the professional press and media. At TU Delft, he has organised the postgraduate Master’s course ‘Management of Safety Health and Environment’ with Andrew Hale from 1994-2008.